“The MoveOn Family Of Organizations Consists Of Three
Entities.” “MoveOn.org, a 501(c)(4) organization, primarily focuses on
education and advocacy on important national issues. MoveOn PAC, a federal PAC,
primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect our values. And MoveOn.org
Voter Fund, a 527 organization, primarily educates voters on the positions,
records, views, and qualifications of candidates for public office.” (MoveOn.Org Website, www.moveon.org, Accessed 3/18/05)

·“MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back
into politics.With a system that today
revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out.When it becomes clear that our
‘representatives’ don’t represent the public, the foundations of democracy are
in peril.MoveOn is a catalyst for
a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in
finding their political voice.Our
nationwide network of more than 600,000 online activists is one of the most
effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available
today.When there is a disconnect
between broad public opinion and legislative action, MoveOn builds electronic
advocacy groups.Examples of such
issues are campaign finance, environmental and energy issues, impeachment, gun
safety, and nuclear disarmament.Once a
group is assembled, MoveOn provides information and tools to help each
individual have the greatest possible impact.During impeachment, MoveOn’s grassroots advocates generated more than
250,000 phone calls and a million emails to Congress.We helped Congress come to understand the depth of public
opposition to impeachment.”(MoveOn.Org Website, www.moveon.org, Accessed 3/18/03)

MoveOn.Org And National Democrats

MoveOn Email Claims It Bought And Owns Democrat Party:
“Now It’s Our Party: We Bought It, We Own It, And We’re Going To Take It Back.” (Adam C. Smith, “Unshaven,
Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg Times, 2/18/05)

“[M]oveOn.org, The Pro-Kerry Advocacy Group That Spent
$21-Million On The 2004 Election …” (Eric Deggans, “The Party Poopers,” St. Petersburg Times, 1/16/05)

MoveOn And Other Grass-Roots Contributors “Gave More Than
$300-Million To The Kerry Campaign And The DNC.” “Having helped
revolutionize online organizing and fundraising, MoveOn isn’t about to let the
Democratic Party forget it. The organization and its legions of Internet-savvy
activists are determined to have their say, as have labor unions, trial lawyers
and other longtime Democratic fundraisers. ‘In the last year, grass-roots
contributors like us gave more than $300-million to the Kerry campaign and the
DNC, and proved that the Party doesn’t need corporate cash to be competitive,’
MoveOn’s 24-year-old executive director said in a recent e-mail urging members
to back an outsider for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.” (Adam C. Smith, “Unshaven,
Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg Times, 2/18/05)

Senator Robert Byrd Was The Star Of A MoveOn.org Rally
Featuring Several Members Of The Senate Democrat Leadership. “The
MoveOn.org rally featured several members of the Democratic leadership and one
major liberal icon, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). But it was Byrd who drew the
most applause. At times during his colleagues’ speeches, the 87-year-old
himself could be heard yelling ‘yeah,’ ‘hallelujah,’ and ‘right’ to show
support for their stated goal of preventing the change in the filibuster rule.” (Mark Preston, “Feisty Byrd
Looks Like A Candidate,” Roll Call, 3/17/05)

Senator Edward Kennedy Urged MoveOn.org Activists To
Flood Into West Virginia To Help Get Robert Byrd Reelected. “I say we’re
gonna see, we want to re-elect Bob Byrd to the United States Senate. . . . I
want all of you right here to go down to Mingo County to Bluefield to Jefferson
County to help him get reelected.”(Senator Edward Kennedy,
MoveOn.org PAC Rally, Washington, DC, 3/16/05)

Over $800,000 Was Raised For Byrd Through A MoveOn.org
Fundraising E-Mail Featuring A Plea For Support By Liberal Senator Barack
Obama. “19,401 contributors had donated $822,914 to Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s
2006 re-election campaign. That’s an average of $42.42 per donation. All the
money was raised in two days since Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sent out a
fund-raising letter early Tuesday afternoon over the Internet through
Moveon.org. . . . Eli Pariser, who coordinates fund-raising for Move On, said,
‘We came to highlight Sen. Byrd because we wanted to demonstrate how much
people in West Virginia and all over the country support him.’” (Paul J. Nyden, “Donations
For Byrd Come To $823,000,” Charleston Gazette, 4/1/05)

Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) Told A MoveOn
Rally That His Caucus Is Depending On MoveOn Activists. “We are depending
on you, we are depending on you to make sure this country stands for what we
learned many years ago when Mr. Smith went to Washington.” (Senator Harry Reid,
MoveOn.org PAC Rally, Washington, DC, 3/16/05)

MoveOn Wants “To Be In A Position To Give A Backbone To
The Democratic Party.” “‘We want to be in a position to give a backbone to
the Democratic Party,’ said Eli Pariser, the executive director of the MoveOn
political action committee, which says it has 3 million members.” (Ronald Brownstein,
“Democrats Aren’t Giving Bush a Break This Term,” Los Angeles Times,
2/11/05)

Matzzie: “The Candidates Want Nothing To Do With The DLC
[Democratic Leadership Council], It’s So Out Of Vogue.”(Adam C. Smith, “Unshaven,
Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg Times, 2/18/05)

Matzzie: “If The DLC Disappeared From The Democratic
Party Tomorrow, No One Would Notice. If MoveOn Weren’t Part Of The Party,
People Would Notice And Care.” (Adam C. Smith, “Unshaven, Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg
Times, 2/18/05)

A Senior Kerry-Edwards Campaign Adviser Said MoveOn Was
Expanding “Possibly At The Expense Of The Democratic Party.” “‘MoveOn’s
building up their own brand and they’re building (its) own fund-raising base -
possibly at the expense of the Democratic Party,’ said Marcus Jadotte, a senior
Kerry-Edwards campaign adviser. ‘Their involvement with the 2004 election was
more focused on building affinity with activist Democrats than defeating George
Bush. They didn’t speak to the middle. They didn’t focus on enhancing the base,
they focused on riling up the base.’” (Adam C. Smith, “Unshaven, Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg
Times, 2/18/05)

Peter Beinart, The Editor Of The New Republic, Urged
Democrats To Take Back Their Party From “Soft” Antiwar Groups Like MoveOn.Org.
“While this argument has been smoldering, Peter Beinart, editor of the New
Republic, opened another front in the party’s ideological conflict. His cover
piece in the Dec. 13 issue urged Democrats to strike a much more hawkish stance
in the war against terrorism. Most provocatively, Beinart urged Democrats to
‘take back their movement’ from antiwar elements in the party that he called
‘softs,’ a group that included filmmaker Michael Moore and MoveOn.org, the
giant online liberal advocacy group that led opposition to the Iraq war.”(Ronald Brownstein, “Democrats Split Again Over Party’s Agenda,” The
Los Angles Times, 1/2/05)

The Democratic Leadership Council Applauded Peter
Beinart’s Call To Take Back The Party. “Beinart’s cri de coeur drew
applause from the Democratic Leadership Council, which raised similar arguments
in the December issue of its Blueprint magazine.” (Ronald Brownstein, “Democrats Split Again Over
Party’s Agenda,” The Los Angles Times, 1/2/05)

MoveOn.org Is Michael Moore’s Army. “Michael Moore
has a war plan to defeat President Bush. With MoveOn.org, he now has his army.
Speaking to an estimated 55,000 liberal activists by conference call Monday
night, packed into 4,600 homes nationwide, Moore asked three things of his
devoted listeners.”(David Paul Kuhn, “Michael
Moore’s Army On The Move,” CBSNews.com, 6/29/04)

MoveOn.org Promoted Michael Moore’s Anti-President Bush
Movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. “On a Monday night in late June, just after
Fahrenheit 9/11’s record-setting opening weekend, the liberal group MoveOn.org
hosted more than 4,000 house parties across the country, at which some 55,000
people showed up to listen to a live webcast featuring Moore. It was the
biggest such event in MoveOn’s six-year history, according to MoveOn PAC Field
Director Adam Ruben.”(Jason Zengerle, “Crashing
The Party,” The New Republic, 7/19/04)

Organizations Linked To Hezbollah Offered To Help
Distribute Michael Moore’s Film In The Middle East. “Meanwhile, in the
United Arab Emirates, the film is being offered the kind of support it doesn’t
need. According to Screen International, the UAE-based distributor Front Row
Entertainment has been contacted by organizations related to the Hezbollah in
Lebanon with offers of help.”(Samantha
Ellis, “Fahrenheit 9/11 Gets Help Offer From Hezbollah,” The [London]
Guardian, 6/17/04)

MOVEON AT ODDS
WITH DEMOCRAT PARTY

MoveOn.Org’s Washington Director Tom Matzzie:“The Candidates Want Nothing To Do With The
DLC, It’s So Out Of Vogue.”(Adam
C. Smith, “Unshaven, Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg Times,
2/18/05)

Matzzie:“If The DLC Disappeared From The Democratic Party Tomorrow,
No One Would Notice. If MoveOn Weren’t Part Of The Party, People Would
Notice And Care.”(Adam C. Smith,
“Unshaven, Unbowed And In Our Face,” St. Petersburg Times, 2/18/05)

Democrat
527 Operative Harold Ickes: “When You Go Out And Talk To Them, People Are Much
More Interested In Something Like MoveOn.org Than In The Democratic Party … It
Has Cachet. There Is No Cachet In The Democratic Party.”(Matt Bai, “Wiring The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy,” The
New York Times, 7/25/04)

“Rank-And-File
Democrats ‘Are More Like Us Than MoveOn,’ Which [Al] From Called A Group Of
‘Elites, People Who Sit In Their Basements All The Time And Play On Their
Computers.’”(NBC’s “First Read,” 3/1/05)

MOVEON.ORG ADS AND BACKGROUND

In October, MoveOn.org Ran Ads In New York And
Washington, DC, Attacking President Bush’s $87 Billion Request.JUDY WOODRUFF: “The anti-war group
MoveOn.org is launching ads today blasting the president’s $87 billion funding
request.The spots are scheduled to air
for three days on cable networks here in New York and in Washington.

NARRATOR: “We could have built 10,000 new schools, or hired
almost 2 million new teachers.We could
have rebuilt our electric grid.”

WOODRUFF: “MoveOn.org says it hopes to raise $10 million to
run ads accusing Mr. Bush of being a misleader in presidential swing states
through this March.”(CNN’s “Inside Politics,”
10/15/03)

MoveOn.org Partnered With The DNC To Raise Funds For Ads
Attacking Republicans In Texas.“In
Texas, Democrats are fighting back hard, but with the world focused on
California, they’ve been fighting alone.They need our help, and the Democratic National Committee and MoveOn.org
PAC are partnering to offer these brave Democrats support.A partisan plan pushed by Karl Rove and Tom
DeLay in the Texas legislature will redistrict between five and seven Democrats
out of Congress, putting the U.S. House of Representatives more firmly in
Republican control. … A letter below from State Senator Rodney Ellis explains
the situation.Please read it, and
then please help us launch a hard-hitting ad campaign to fight back in
Texas.Whether you donate $5 or $5,000,
you will help hold accountable reckless Republicans who think they can get away
with anything.Please contribute to
this effort now.”(DNC Email, “Emergency:
Democracy Under Attack In Texas,” 8/21/03)

MoveOn.org Founders Wes Boyd And Joan Blades Made Over
$25 Million When They Sold The Software Firm They Founded, Berkeley Systems.“But the creators of MoveOn.org, an
Internet fund-raising and lobbying group, have built themselves a more
respectable constituency than anyone anticipated when Berkeley-based software
developers Wes Boyd and Joan Blades first conceived of it four years ago. …
Wes Boyd and Joan Blades have the time and resources to change the world thanks
to flying toasters.As creators of the
software firm Berkeley Systems, they made a fortune on the famous After Dark
screen-saver, eventually selling the company to the Internet giant CUC
International for $25 million.”(Chris Thompson, “The Rise
Of Point & Click Liberalism,” East Bay Express [San Francisco, CA],
7/2/03)

MoveOn.org Held An Online Democrat Primary In June 2003.“Last month, members of MoveOn.org, an
organization of 1.4 million liberal activists, held the country’s first online
primary to pick a Democrat to challenge President Bush.And the winner was?Nobody.A candidate needed 50 percent of the vote to get the group’s
endorsement.The first-place finisher
was former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean with 44 percent, followed by Rep. Dennis
Kucinich of Ohio with 24 percent, and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts with 16
percent.None of the other six
candidates reached double digits.”(William Schneider,
“Connecting With The Wired Left,” The National Journal, 7/5/03)

MoveOn.org’s Primary Helped To Raise An Estimated $1.75
Million For The Democrat Presidential Candidates.“MoveOn is a way for liberals to raise money fast, over the
Internet.That’s the main reason
candidates showed so much interest.Some 317,639 people voted in the MoveOn primary.Nearly 50,000 of them pledged
contributions, raising an estimated total of $1.75 million for the Democratic
contenders.”(William Schneider,
“Connecting With The Wired Left,” The National Journal, 7/5/03)

MoveOn.org Officials Reportedly Believe Their
Organization Can Raise $50 Million For The 2004 Election.“According to a June 11 email sent out by
Boyd, if the group’s 2 million members coalesce around a candidate, MoveOn.org
will ‘endorse and immediately begin doing work to elect that candidate.’That could provide the lucky candidate with
a major advantage both during and after the primary:Political insiders tell Who’s Who that MoveOn.org thinks it can
raise as much as $50 million for the 2004 election, nearly as much as Al Gore’s
fundraising total in 2000.Howard
Dean’s insurgent campaign is taking note, and has already launched an effort to
win the group’s endorsement.”(Washington Monthly,
7/1/03)

The Dean Campaign Paid Zack Exley, A MoveOn.org Employee,
To Work On Their Website.“[O]ne of
MoveOn.org’s employees, Zack Exley, recently took a leave of absence for two
weeks and two days when he was paid to work on organizing Dean’s Web
site.”(Nedra Pickler, “Virtual Primary Faces Vote-Rig
Concerns,” The Associated Press, 6/22/03)

Exley Also Created GWBush.com In 2000, Which Featured A
“Doctored Photo Of George W. Bush With What Appeared To Be Cocaine On His Upper
Lip And Nose.”“As the 2000 presidential
campaign began, a young computer programmer from Massachusetts named Zack Exley
enjoyed 15 minutes of fame when he created a website called GWBush.com.The site, which Exley billed as a ‘parody,’
featured a doctored photo of George W. Bush with what appeared to be cocaine on
his upper lip and nose.It sold
bumper stickers with sayings like ‘GWBush, Not a Crackhead Anymore!’ and
‘GWBush, Born with a Silver Spoon Up His Nose.’And it featured a cartoon of Bush dancing with a bottle in his
hand as kegs of beer bounced around the screen and ‘Louie, Louie’ played in the
background. … These days, however, GWBush.com is still in business.Visitors can still watch the beer cartoon
and buy bumper stickers that say, ‘Some people are just too stupid to be
president.’Given all that has
happened since the 2000 campaign, none of that might seem to merit serious
discussion, except that in recent months Zack Exley has emerged as a serious
player in Democratic politics.The
creator of GWBush.com is now the organizing director for MoveOn.org, the
web-based activist group that attracted worldwide attention in June when it
held a ‘virtual primary’ of Democratic presidential candidates.”(Byron York, “HateBush.org: The Rise Of A Website, A Political Action
Committee … A Movement?,” National Review, 7/28/03)

MoveOn.org Raised $1 Million For Ads Attacking Texas
Republicans On Redistricting.“The
11 Democrats who fled Texas to block congressional redistricting are getting a
boost from an online Internet group that helped Howard Dean raise unprecedented
sums for his presidential bid.The
Web-based group - MoveOn.org - has launched a fund-raising appeal with a $1
million goal to produce television and radio ads denouncing the Republican
remap effort.‘A ‘defending democracy
campaign’ is what we’re calling it,’ said Zack Exley, organizing director for
MoveOn.‘We want to raise awareness
nationally to put the spotlight on what’s going on in Texas.’According Mr. Exley, an e-mail solicitation
to ‘help us launch a hard-hitting ad campaign to fight back in Texas’ has
raised $430,000 so far.He said a
second fund-raising appeal has been sent to potential donors.”(Wayne Slater and Gromer Jeffers, Jr., “Web Group Comes To Exiles’
Aid,” The Dallas Morning News, 8/22/03)

MoveOn.org And Win Without War Joined To Air Television
Ads Labeling Bush A “Misleader” And Questioning The President’s Credibility. “Still, Win Without War and MoveOn.org are
already calling a 30-second ad they co-sponsored, which aired over the past week
in the Washington and New York area cable markets, an unqualified hit.The ad, which labels Bush a ‘misleader,’
brought in thousands of people to the MoveOn.org Web site to sign the petition.The coalition said it will place ads in at
least 10 other cities over the next two weeks.”(Evelyn
Nieves, “Antiwar Groups Say Public Ire Over Iraq Claims Is Increasing,” The
Washington Post, 7/22/03)

MoveOn.org Funded A
Controversial Campaign Against Bush Tax Cuts, Depicting Parents Having To Give
Blood To Raise Money For Their Children’s Education. “The liberal activist
group MoveOn.org is running a caustic television ad campaign in 20 cities that
depicts the administration’s plan as too expensive and a sop to the wealthy.
The ads, which began running earlier this week, feature parents selling their
blood plasma to raise money for their children’s cash-strapped school -- a
reenactment of a fundraiser last month for a school in Oregon.” (Helen Dewar, “2nd Illinois
Republican Declines Senate Bid,” The
Washington Post, 5/14/03)

The Commercials Were
Linked To A “Virtual March” In Which The DNC And Other Liberal Groups
Participated In Hopes Of Halting Washington.“The $100,000 campaign, which has been
rejected by cable providers in two cities -- they considered the spots too
controversial -- will coincide with a ‘virtual march’ on Washington, scheduled
for [Wednesday, May 14]. MoveOn.org, along with the Democratic National
Committee, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and other liberal groups,
plans to flood the Senate’s phone lines with calls and faxes condemning the
president’s plan.” (Helen
Dewar, “2nd Illinois Republican Declines Senate Bid,” The Washington Post, 5/14/03)

MoveOn.org’s
Controversial Commercial Was Pulled In Some Cities Due To Cable Companies’
Script Objects. “A television commercial opposing tax cuts sought by
President Bush won’ be seen on Cox cable in Phoenix because it is either ‘in
poor taste’ or is ‘too controversial’ . . . In Phoenix, Cox spokeswoman Andrea
Katsenes said the ad was turned down because it was ‘in poor taste.’ She would
not elaborate on what the company found wrong.” (Jon Kamman, “COX Rejects Anti-Tax Cut Ad, Citing
Controversy,” The Arizona Republic,
5/13/03)

MoveOn.org’s Exley Said That The Group’s Members
Contributed Over $4 Million To Congressional Candidates In The 2002 Elections.(Julia Malone, “Democrats Compete For Party’s Liberal Base In Online
‘Primary,’” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/24/03)

In The Past Two Federal Election Cycles, MoveOn.org’s PAC
Has Contributed $236,974 With All Donations Going To Federal Democrat
Candidates.(The Center For Responsive Politics, www.opensecrets.org, Accessed March 18,
2003)

MoveOn.org’s Anti-War Message Has Been Forwarded By Their
Creation Of A Celebrity Anti-War Group Of Musicians.“Musicians United to Win Without War … recently placed
full-page anti-war ads in The New York Times and Rolling Stone. …
More than 40 acts that support the organization, including Sheryl Crow, David
Byrne, Jay-Z, Dave Matthews, R.E.M., Massive Attack, Fugazi, Kronos Quartet,
Missy Elliott, Lucinda Williams, Ryuichi Sakamoto, OutKast, and Lou Reed. A
concert to support the cause is reportedly being discussed, but the
organization’s reps say that nothing has been finalized yet.Musicians United to Win Without War is
funded by nonprofit activist organization MoveOn.org, which has created a Web
site for the cause. MoveOn.org executive director Peter Schuerman says, ‘While
MoveOn.org strives to [get] regular people’s voices heard, music stars have the
ability to be heard much more quickly. The support of so many amazing musicians
has given a tremendous lift to the anti-war cause.’ Although the organization
has no concrete, immediate plans for anti-war events, Schuerman adds, ‘We’re
always considering our options.’”(Jim Bessman, “Anti-War
Support,” Billboard, March 22, 2003)

600,000 People Have Allegedly Joined MoveOn.org’s
Anti-War Movement.“More than
600,000 people and counting have joined the anti-war movement online at
MoveOn.org, which has run television ads in major markets and met with members
of Congress in an effort to drum up opposition to war.”(Stacia Falat, “Anti-War Update,” In These Times, March 17,
2003)

In 1999, MoveOn.org Raised Money To Defeat Incumbents Who
Voted For The Impeachment Of Clinton.“Moving
from advocacy to electoral action, the MoveOn.org ‘We will remember’ campaign
is raising funds for candidates challenging incumbents who supported
impeachment. Five candidates from across the nation were highlighted in this
first offering: Adam Schiff running against impeachment House manager Rogan in
California, Gov. Mel Carnahan running against Sen. Ashcroft in Missouri, Rep.
Rush Holt defending his recently won seat in New Jersey, Nancy Keenan running
against Rep. Hill in Montana, and Jean Elliott Brown running against Rep. Foley
in Florida. As races become more clear and the election season heats up, MoveOn
will offer more candidates for consideration by contributors.”(MoveOn.org, Press Release, June 30, 1999)

Hollywood Connection

Many Hollywood Democrats “Gravitated Toward Involvement
In MoveOn.” “[D]emocrats dominate in Hollywood, and many have gravitated
toward involvement in MoveOn, which started as an online rump group opposing President
Clinton’s impeachment and later, the Iraq war. An independent group not
connected directly to the Kerry campaign, MoveOn has raised millions through
the Internet, promising an unconventional approach to campaigning.” (Beth Fouhy, “Celebrities
Take Center Stage On Both Coasts This Week For John Kerry,” The Associated
Press, 8/23/04)

MoveOn.org Used A-List Actors And Directors In Many Of
Their Anti-Bush Ads. “In the latest manifestation of celebrity support for
John Kerry, the political Internet group MoveOn.org on Tuesday will unveil 10
new anti-Bush ads, directed by award-winning directors and starring such
Hollywood A-listers like actors Matt Damon and Scarlett Johanssen.”(Beth Fouhy, “Celebrities Take Center Stage On Both
Coasts This Week For John Kerry,” The Associated Press, 8/23/04)

“[T]he Liberal Group Moveon.Org Produced A TV Ad Titled
‘Quagmire’ Asserting That Mr. Bush Lacks Plans To End The War. ‘George Bush Got
Us Into This Quagmire,’ The Narrator Says As An American Soldier Sinks Deeper Into
Quicksand, Rifle Overhead In A Posture That Suggests Surrender.”(Todd J. Gillman, “History Of A ‘Quagmire’” The Dallas Morning News,
9/27/04)

MoveOn.Org Created The MoveOn.org Voter Fund, A Soft
Money 527 Committee That Will “Create And Run Powerful Political Ads In Swing
States To Challenge President Bush’s Policies And His Administration.”“The MoveOn.org Voter Fund is a new 527 fund
affiliated with MoveOn.org, the pre-eminent online advocacy group in the United
States.The Voter Fund will create and
run powerful political ads in swing states to challenge President Bush’s
policies and his administration.The
Voter Fund will also house other projects which will expose the gap between
President Bush’s carefully constructed image and his failed policies.”(MoveOn.org Voter Fund Website, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org, Accessed
10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund Aims To “Reduce His [Bush’s]
Support Among Swing Voters Through An Empirically Driven Advertising Campaign.”“Our objective is to challenge George Bush’s
policies and record in order to reduce support for his re-election in
2004.We will concentrate our resources
in several states critical to his re-election.In those states, we will reduce his support among swing voters through
an empirically driven advertising campaign.”(MoveOn.org
Voter Fund Website, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org,
Accessed 10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund Believes That “A Strong Independent
Effort That Is Launched Immediately Can Fill The Void And Soften Bush’s Support
Before He And His Eventual Opponent Begin Their Head-To-Head Battle In The
Spring Of 2004.”“Bush’s support is
eroding on many fronts, foreign and domestic.Yet his potential presidential opponents must spend most of their
resources on competing with each other rather than further undermining public
support for Bush.As this will continue
until mid- to late-March, we believe a strong independent effort that is
launched immediately can fill the void and soften Bush’s support before he and
his eventual opponent begin their head-to-head battle in the spring of
2004.Absent such work, Bush’s use of
the presidential bully pulpit will put all of us at a disadvantage in the
period leading up to March 2004.”(MoveOn.org Voter Fund
Website Strategy Memo, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org/strategy.html,
Accessed 10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund Will “Produce Convincing Anti-Bush
TV Spots And Get Them On The Air In Targeted States” Throughout The
“Pre-Primary And Primary Periods.”“We will create powerful television advertising to implement this
strategy. We will produce convincing
anti-Bush TV spots and get them on the air in targeted states.We will buy enough airtime to effectively
deliver our message to swing voters in those states.We will sustain our advertising presence continually throughout
the pre-primary and primary periods.Our advertising will significantly enhance door-to-door canvassing,
labor union membership education, voter registration, and other projects taking
place on the ground in the states we target.We will constantly refine our themes and the content and tone of our TV
spots to reflect the findings of a vigorous testing program.”(MoveOn.org Voter Fund Website Strategy Memo, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org/strategy.html,
Accessed 10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund’s Initial TV Ads “Grouped Around
Three Simple Themes.”“Our initial
TV advertising will be grouped around three simple themes, which recent polling
and focus group research have indicated will get the best response. First,
Bush’s actions can’t be trusted. … Second, Bush’s actions reflect a lack of
concern for working families. … Third, Bush’s actions and record show lack of
competence to solve the nation’s problems.”(MoveOn.org
Voter Fund Website Strategy Memo, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org/strategy.html,
Accessed 10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund Tested And Re-Evaluated Its Message
Through Polls And Focus Groups, Responding To “Varying Conditions In Each State.”“We will continually test and re-evaluate
this three-pronged message strategy by conducting polls and focus groups and by
staying in touch with allies working on the ground in each of our targeted
states.We will refine our
understanding of the swing voter population in each state to see which segments
are more persuadable than others.We
will be sensitive to varying conditions in each state, which may require that
different TV spots be run in different locations.We will test the impact of our advertising with before and after
polling to be certain we are having the effect we desire.We will test different amounts of
advertising to be certain we are buying enough to affect the vote but not more
than is necessary.We will constantly
troll for new messages that might more effectively achieve our objective, and
we will monitor our tone to be sure it resonates with the voters we are
after.”(MoveOn.org Voter Fund Website Strategy Memo, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org/strategy.html,
Accessed 10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund Planned To Coordinate With Liberal
Allies Running “Field Campaigns” In The States.“We will work collaboratively with other projects pursuing
similar strategies.While ours will be
the only campaign using large-scale TV advertising during the pre-primary and
primary periods, several other well-funded field efforts are underway in some
or all of the states we are targeting.We will coordinate with these efforts to ensure that our advertising
will enhance public interest in these field campaigns, increase motivation to
participate in them, and get them more attention from the local press.”(MoveOn.org Voter Fund Website Strategy Memo, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org/strategy.html,
Accessed 10/24/03)

MoveOn.Org Voter Fund Believed That The “Outcome Of The
Next Presidential Election Will Be Largely Decided In A Few States And
Determined By Relatively Small Margins.”“We understand that an autumn 2003/winter 2004 campaign is very early
for affecting the vote in November 2004.However, we believe that the outcome of the next presidential election
will be largely decided in a few states and determined by relatively small
margins.We should never allow there to
be a gap in the drumbeat of opposition the public hears about Bush’s
performance as President, especially in the battleground states, and especially
now that his support has dropped to pre-9/11 levels.”(MoveOn.org
Voter Fund Website Strategy Memo, www.MoveOnvoterfund.org/strategy.html,
Accessed 10/24/03)

Sandlers
Were Fourth Largest Donors To Democrat 527 Groups, Giving $14,009,039,
Including To The Joint Victory Campaign And Citizens For A Strong Senate. (Political Money Line
Website, www.tray.com, Accessed
3/18/05)

Peter
Lewis And Billionaire Philanthropists George Soros And John Sperling Have
“Bankrolled The Pro-Pot Movement.”(Joel Stein, “The New Politics Of Pot; Can It
Go Legit?” Time, 11/4/02)

oLewis Was Second Largest Donor To Democrat-527
Groups In 2004 Cycle, Giving $23,997,220, Including To Joint Victory Campaign
2004, ACT NOW PAC, America Votes 2004 And Democracy For America. (Political Money Line
Website, www.tray.com, Accessed 3/18/05)

oSoros Contributed The Most Money,$27,030,105, Of Any Donor To 527s In 2004 Cycle,
Including To Joint Victory Campaign 2004, ACT NOW PAC, And Democracy For
America. (Political
Money Line Website, www.tray.com, Accessed
3/18/05)

oBing Was Fourth Largest Contributor, Giving
$13,952,682, To Democrat-527s In 2004 Cycle, Including To Joint Victory
Campaign 2004, Voices For Working Families, And Campaign for Americas Future. (Political Money Line
Website, www.tray.com, Accessed 3/18/05)

MOVEON.ORG – LIBERAL ANTI-WAR GROUP

MoveOn.org Opposed Military Action In Afghanistan After 9/11

After 9/11, MoveOn.org Collected Signatures For Statement
Calling For “Justice, Not Escalating Violence That Would Only Play Into The
Terrorists’ Hands.”“Joan
Blades of Berkeley, a founder of MoveOn.org, an online network of
liberal-leaning activists, said her group had collected 30,000 signatures
since the attacks Sept. 11 on a statement calling for ‘justice, not escalating
violence that would only play into the terrorists’ hands.’‘It’s a frightening thing to find out there
are nations of people that think we’re evil,’ Blades said in a telephone
interview.‘We don’t want to support
that imagery; we want to turn it around.’”(Tony Pugh,
“Against Tide, They Clamor For Peace,” The Philadelphia Inquirer,
9/21/01)

MoveOn Peace Website: “A Non-Military Response Is The
Best Strategy For A Permanent End To Terror.”“Why peace?Because we
want justice for our dead; and because we want our safety back.Because we want a world in which the events
of September 11 can never be repeated.We
support President Bush’s resolve to end terrorism, but not his military agenda
for doing it. … It is our strong belief that a non-military response is the
best strategy for a permanent end to terror. … [A] war on terrorism is
likely to increase terrorist activity at home, not just overseas.Indiscriminate killings of Afghani citizens
or other innocent citizens of the globe will achieve nothing but death, and it
is certain to inflame retaliation and even further terrorism – and it lowers us
to the level of the terrorist attackers. … [P]resident Bush must pledge to
discontinue the U.S.’s own violence-supporting actions across the Middle East.
… OUR CALL IS THIS: President Bush and citizens around the globe, let us not
enter into World War III.Rather, let
us begin immediately to forge WORLD PEACE I.”(MoveOn
Peace Website Archive, http://web.archive.org/web/20030512072603/peace.moveon.org/peace.php3,
Accessed 4/27/04)

MoveOn.org Petition Called On World Leaders To “Use
Moderation And Restraint In Responding To” Terrorist Attacks. “We, the undersigned, citizens and residents
of the United States of America and of countries around the world, appeal to
the President of The United States, George W. Bush; to the NATO Secretary
General, Lord Robertson; to the President of the European Commission, Romano
Prodi; and to all leaders internationally to use moderation and restraint in
responding to the recent terrorist attacks against the United States.We implore the powers that be to use,
wherever possible, international judicial institutions and international human
rights law to bring to justice those responsible for the attacks, rather than
the instruments of war, violence or destruction.”(MoveOn.org
Website, http://www.moveon.org/peace/petition/petition.html,
Accessed 12/17/03)

üPetition
Stated Governments Should Not Be “Held Unduly Accountable” For Actions Of
Terrorist Groups Operating Within Their Borders.“Furthermore,
we assert that the government of a nation must be presumed separate and
distinct from any terrorist group that may operate within its borders, and
therefore cannot be held unduly accountable for the latter’s crimes.It follows that the government of a
particular nation should not be condemned for the recent attack without
compelling evidence of its cooperation and complicity with those individuals
who actually committed the crimes in question.”(MoveOn.org Website, http://www.moveon.org/peace/petition/petition.html,
Accessed 12/17/03)

MoveOn.org Campaigns Director Eli Pariser Circulated
Petition Calling For “Peaceful Response To Break The Cycle Of Violence.”“The MoveOn Peace campaign was founded
independently as ‘9-11Peace.org’ by Eli Pariser, a Maine native and recent
graduate of Simon’s Rock College of Bard.In the days following September 11th, 2001, he launched an online
petition calling for a peaceful response to break the cycle of violence,
which was quickly signed by more than one hundred thousand people in the U.S.
and almost half a million worldwide.Eli joined forces with MoveOn soon afterward, and is now our
International Campaigns Director.” (MoveOn.org Website, http://www.moveon.org/about/, Accessed
12/17/03)

üIn
Late 2001, MoveOn.org Merged With Pariser’s Website, 9-11Peace.org.“At the end of 2001, Pariser was approached
by another dot-org that had been watching the heavy traffic on his Web site
[9-11Peace.org] – a group called moveon.org, started in Berkeley in 1998 by
married software entrepreneurs, Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, to stop the
impeachment of Bill Clinton.Pariser
joined them as a consultant and merged the two sites.”(George Packer, “Smart-Mobbing The War,” The New York Times,
12/18/03)

MoveOn.Org
Opposed $87 Billion For Troops And Reconstruction In Iraq And Afghanistan

MoveOn.Org Opposed $87 Billion For Troops And
Reconstruction In Iraq And Afghanistan.“An online political activist group is criticizing President Bush’s $87
billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan in a television ad that will begin
airing on New York and Washington broadcast and cable outlets Thursday.The commercial is part of MoveOn.org’s
effort to defeat the supplemental spending bill pending in Congress. … In
the spot, an announcer argues that Bush misled the country and describes ways
the money can be spent domestically.‘We could have built 10,000 new schools.Or hired almost 2 million new teachers.We could have rebuilt our electric grid.We could have insured more of our children,’
the announcer says.The images of
children, teachers and a woman reading by a flickering light illustrate the
point.‘If there’s money for Iraq, why
isn’t there money for America?’ the announcer asks.”(Will
Lester, “Political Notebook,” The Associated Press, 10/15/03)

MoveOn.Org Called For “Regime Change” In America:

MoveOn.org Called For “Regime Change” In America.“Hoping to ‘engage in a little “regime
change”‘ of its own, a liberal PAC has mined anti-war sentiment to raise
millions of dollars for Democratic House and Senate candidates around the
country, including several who actually support going to war with Iraq.MoveOn.org, a San Francisco Bay
area-based organization with an affiliated political action committee that was
originally formed to lobby against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton,
has become a broad pro-Democrat operation that is primarily concerned with
opposing war with Iraq. … As the group is chiefly concerned with opposing war
with Iraq – its Web site prominently features a ‘No War on Iraq’ petition and a
call for ‘regime change’ in Congress – MoveOn was able to raise more than $1
million in 48 hours after Congress voted to give President Bush the authority
to use force.” (Ben Pershing, “Fighting The War On The
Homefront,” Roll Call, 10/28/02)

MoveOn.Org Opposed War In Iraq:

In January 2003, MoveOn.org Recreated 1964 “Daisy” Ad To
Oppose War, Urge More Time For Inspectors.“Revisiting a jarring television commercial from the Cold War era, a
grass-roots anti-war group has remade the 1964 ‘Daisy’ ad, warning that a war
against Iraq could spark nuclear Armageddon.Like the original, the 30-second ad by the Internet-based group
MoveOn.org depicts a girl plucking petals from a daisy – along with a missile
launch countdown and a nuclear mushroom cloud. … MoveOn.org released its
version to the media Wednesday and was to air the ad Thursday in 13 major U.S.
cities at a cost of $400,000.Its ad
includes scenes of military escalation before the mushroom cloud appears.Then the screen goes black, with a warning
that a war might end quickly – or it might spread to other countries and end
with ‘the unthinkable.’The ad ends
with the message: ‘Maybe that’s why the overwhelming majority of Americans say
to President Bush: Let the inspections work.’”(Ian
Stewart, “Anti-War Group Revives The ‘Daisy’ Ad,” The Associated Press,
1/16/03)

In February 2003, MoveOn.org And Win Without War
Coalition Aired Ad Starring Martin Sheen Promoting “Virtual March On
Washington” To Oppose Iraq War.“With
another national coalition, Win Without War, MoveOn developed a TV ad featuring
actor Martin Sheen.The ad ran in New
York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles earlier this year to promote a
Feb. 26 ‘virtual march’ on Washington.It cost about $300,000 and prompted tens of thousands of callers to
flood congressional switchboards with anti-war messages that day.” (John Ritter, “Anti-War Groups Do A Lot With Little,” USA Today,
3/31/03)

In July 2003, MoveOn.org Co-Sponsored Ad Campaign
Accusing President Bush Of “Misleading” Americans On Iraq’s Nuclear Program In
State Of The Union Address.“With
questions mounting as to why President Bush said in his State of the Union
address that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa, the online advocacy
groups MoveOn.org and Win Without War are launching a television advertising
campaign accusing Bush of misleading Americans.The ads feature unflattering, green-tinted photos of the
president, along with a graphic display of his controversial accusation, which
the administration has since said was based on disputed intelligence.‘George Bush told us Iraq was a nuclear
threat,’ the announcer says.‘He said
they were trying to purchase uranium. … Now there’s evidence we were
misled.And almost every day, Americans
are dying in Iraq.We need the truth,
not a cover-up.’The spots direct
viewers to a new Web site that the two antiwar groups have unveiled, www.misleader.org, which collects
signatures for a petition urging Congress to create an independent commission
to investigate what that site calls ‘the lies and distortions of the Iraq War.’Organizers plan to deliver the first batch
of signatures – at least 300,000, said MoveOn.org official Eli Pariser – on
Monday.The ad campaign will run for
three days in Washington and New York, starting Monday.It will cost $ 40,000.” (Brian Faler, “Never Mind About The Term Limits Thing,” The
Washington Post, 7/14/03)

In March 2004, MoveOn.org Aired Ads Urging Congress To
“Censure” President Bush For Iraq War.“MoveOn’s new spot will air in New York and Washington, D.C., beginning
Saturday.The ad claims that Bush
did not tell the truth a year ago when laying out the case for war with Iraq,
and it urges Congress to censure the president.A Bush imitator gives MoveOn’s version of what Bush should have
said in his State of the Union address: ‘My fellow Americans, we have no
evidence that Iraq has stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.No connection to 9/11.No nuclear capability.They pose no imminent threat to us.’The ad then says: ‘If he said that, would we
have gone to war, spending $125 billion and losing more than 500 American
lives?’The ad, according to a script
MoveOn released, uses images of burned-out Jeeps, Humvees and helicopters in
Iraq, where more than 500 U.S. military members have died.”(Liz Sidoti, “New Anti-Bush Ads Assail President On Economy, Iraq War,”
The Associated Press, 3/17/04)

MoveOn.Org Placed Ads Comparing Bush To Hitler On Website:

Two Ads Comparing President Bush To Hitler Appeared On
MoveOn.org Voter Fund Website.“One
ad begins with Adolf Hitler making speeches, until a picture of President Bush
appears.Another also uses Nazi and
Bush images, with the tag line: ‘What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy
in 2003.’The videos appeared on the
Web site of MoveOn.org’s Voter Fund as part of a nationwide contest for an
anti-Bush television ad on which the liberal group plans to spend a
considerable sum.”(Howard Kurtz, “Anti-Bush Ad
Contest Includes Hitler Images,” The Washington Post, 1/6/04)

üAbraham
Foxman Of Anti-Defamation League Called Ads “Vile And Outrageous” And Group’s
Comments Explaining Them “Hardly Comforting.”(Anti-Defamation
League,“Hitler Ad Should Never Have
Appeared On MoveOn.org,” Press Release, 1/5/04)

üJames
Tisch, Chairman Of Conference Of Presidents Of Major American Jewish
Organizations, Called Ads “Grotesque And Outrageous.”(“Liberal
Group Comes Under Fire For Ad On Its Web Site That Morphs An Image Of President
Bush Into Adolf Hitler,” The Associated Press, 1/5/04)

MoveOn.org May Have Accepted Foreign Contributions

The
New York Sun Reported On MoveOn.org’s Foreign Fundraising.“Foreigners opposed to the policies of
the Bush administration are concluding that donations to anti-Bush advocacy
groups such as MoveOn.org are a legal way for non-Americans to contribute to
the president’s electoral defeat.Their efforts are adding to the mounting legal scrutiny of the wellfunded
advocacy groups that are emerging as a major force in next year’s election
campaigns thanks to campaign finance laws that restrict fundraising by the
traditional political parties. … This week, a group called Canadians for
Clark was soliciting Canadian donations to MoveOn.org as a means to promote the
presidential aspirations of General Wesley Clark. … The Web site said
Canadians cannot by law contribute directly to the Clark campaign, ‘but we can
support prodemocracy, progressive American organizations like MoveOn.org, which
do their best to spread the ugly truth about Bush and publicize the Democratic
message.’The site reversed course
Tuesday and said it would no longer solicit money for MoveOn.org, ‘as we have
just become aware of the organization’s new rules concerning foreign
donations.’MoveOn.org said last
weekend that it would no longer accept foreign money after a Swedish group,
Democracy Aid ‘04, attempted to raise money from Europeans.‘One dollar per EU-citizen would suffice to
raise more money than the entire Bush campaign budget for the elections in
2000.Compare this price to the cost of
having Bush in the White House,’ the group’s Web site appealed.”(Luiza Ch. Savage, “Anti-Bush Foreigners Eye Web For Donations To
Democrats,” The New York Sun, 12/18/03)

üMoveOn.org Defended Legality Of Foreign
Contributions, But Said That “To Avoid Even The Appearance Of Impropriety,” It
Would Not Accept Foreign Contributions During Election Year.“MoveOn.org maintained that it is entitled
to accept foreign donations as long as they are not made to its political
action committee or its political advertising arm.‘Issue advocacy organizations can accept contributions from
foreign nationals,’ the group said in a statement.‘But MoveOn.org will not be accepting any such contributions
during an election year in order to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.’”(Luiza Ch. Savage, “Anti-Bush Foreigners Eye Web For Donations To
Democrats,” The New York Sun, 12/18/03)

üMoveOn.org
Refused To Say How Much It Received From Donors Abroad.“A spokesman for MoveOn.org could not say
how much money the group had received from abroad.He said only that the group has not sought
foreign contributions, was unaware of the foreign Web sites until contacted by
the press, and that the role of the group’s ‘International Campaigns Director’
was limited to organizing international rallies and candlelight vigils
protesting the Iraq war, not raising money abroad.The Canadians for Clark Web site said, ‘It is doubtful that our
link has led to a single donation.’”(Luiza Ch. Savage,
“Anti-Bush Foreigners Eye Web For Donations To Democrats,” The New York Sun,
12/18/03)

MoveOn.org’s
Anti-Bush Campaign

MoveOn.org Plans $50 Million Anti-Bush Effort.“MoveOn PAC announced plans to raise an
unprecedented amount of money to defeat President Bush and elect ‘progressive
candidates.’The group plans to
raise $50 million in the hopes of reducing the Republican advantage of large
contributions from wealthy donors and corporations. … The unprecedented
goal of $50 million is the more than the national Democratic Party raised in
the past year, and is more than the National Rifle Association and Emily’s List
raised in the 2002 election cycle combined.The $50 million dollars will be split three ways, with $10 million
being used to support the largest GOTV drive in American history.$20 million will be used for advertising in
swing states, and an additional $20 million will be given directly to the Kerry
campaign.”(CBS News’ “Washington Wrap,” www.cbsnews.com,
4/22/04)

MoveOn.org Launched $5 Million Campaign In Battleground
States To Hire 500 Organizers And Assist 30,000-Plus Volunteers To Turn Out
440,000 New Voters For John Kerry.“MoveOn PAC has launched an unprecedented $5 million campaign in
battleground states to apply a technique which experts say is the single most
effective strategy for voter persuasion and increased voter turnout-person-
to-person contact by friends and neighbors.MoveOn calls this precinct-level GOTV effort: ‘Leave No Voter
Behind.’Using the same technology it
pioneered for grassroots organizing over the internet, MoveOn PAC has developed
the capacity and infrastructure to wage a door-to-door campaign in support of
John Kerry in 10,000 neighborhoods in most key battleground states.Over the next six weeks, MoveOn PAC will
hire 500 organizers to assist 30,000-plus MoveOn volunteers in turning out as
many as 440,000 new votes for John Kerry – a combination of previously
undecided voters and infrequent Democratic voters who would otherwise be
unlikely to go the polls.”(MoveOn.org, “MoveOn PAC To
Hire 500 Organizers In Battleground States For $5 Million Get Out The Vote
Campaign,” Press Release, 8/11/04)

Through March 2004, MoveOn.org Raised $17 Million In Soft
Money For Anti-Bush Ads.“MoveOn.org
was founded by computer entrepreneurs Wes Boyd and Joan Blades and boasts some
2.3 million members.It has used more
than bake sales to raise money: MoveOn reported Thursday that its partisan
soft-money arm has raised $17 million since October, including about $7 million
from January through March.”(Mielikki Org, “MoveOn
Organizes National Bake Sales To Raise Money Against Bush,” The Associated
Press, 4/17/04)

MoveOn.org Has Spent More Than $10 Million On Anti-Bush
Ads.“A sister group, MoveOn Voter
Fund, accepts soft money from wealthy donors such as George Soros and has spent
more than $10 million on political ads to criticize the Bush
administration.”(Julia Malone, “MoveOn Ad
Fantasizes About Bush Testimony To 9/11 Panel,” Cox News Service,
4/6/04)

Billionaire Financier George Soros And Partner Pledged $5
Million To MoveOn.org.“MoveOn.org
is financed in part by a $5 million pledge from billionaire George Soros and
insurance magnate Peter Lewis.The
controversial Soros has also pledged millions of dollars to another anti-Bush
group, Americans Coming Together, whose principal organizers include former Clinton
adviser Harold Ickes.”(Chuck Raasch, “Liberal
Group Running New Anti-Bush Ads In 5 Swing States,” Gannett News Service,
12/3/03)

üSoros Compared Bush Administration To Nazis.“Soros believes that a ‘supremacist
ideology’ guides this White House. He
hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary.‘When I hear Bush say, “You’re either
with us or against us,” it reminds me of the Germans.’It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi
slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit (‘The enemy is listening’).‘My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule
have sensitized me,’ he said in a soft Hungarian accent.”(Laura
Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets Vs. Bush,” The Washington Post,
11/11/03)

üSoros:
“America, Under Bush, Is A Danger To The World.”“‘America, under Bush, is a danger to the world,’ Soros
said.Then he smiled: ‘And I’m willing
to put my money where my mouth is.’”(Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets Vs.
Bush,” The Washington Post, 11/11/03)

MoveOn.org Funded Group Running
Ads Attacking

President Bush’s National Guard
Service

Texans For Truth, Group Running Ads Questioning President
Bush’s National Guard Service, Was Funded By MoveOn.org. “A group called
Texans for Truth will release a TV ad today in which a former lieutenant
colonel in the Alabama Air National Guard says neither he nor his friends saw
George W. Bush when the future president was supposed to be with their unit in
1972. The ad could renew questions about Bush’s Vietnam-era service in the
National Guard, just as ads by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
renewed debate over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s service in
Vietnam and his anti-war efforts. … Texans for Truth is an arm of
DriveDemocracy, an Austin-based organization that got its initial funding from
the liberal group MoveOn.org.” (Mark Memmott, “‘Texans For Truth’ Ad Challenges Bush On Guard
Service,” USA Today, 9/8/04)

üTexans
For Truth Was Established By DriveDemocracy, A “20,000-Member Texas Online
Activist Group.” “Texans for Truth, established by the 20,000-member
Texas online activist group, DriveDemocracy.org, has produced a 0:30 second
television advertisement, ‘AWOL.’ The ad features Robert Mintz, one of many who
served in Alabama’s 187th Air National Guard – when Bush claims to have been
there – who have no memory of Bush on the base. In other words, Bush failed to
fulfill his military duty while others were dying in Vietnam.” (Texans For Truth Website, www.texansfortruth.com, Accessed
9/7/04)

üLaunched
In April 2004, DriveDemocracy Was Initially Funded By “Generous Start-Up Grant
From MoveOn.org.” “DriveDemocracy is a Texas-based organization
initially funded through a generous start-up grant from MoveOn.org. Like
MoveOn, DriveDemocracy wants to help ordinary people make their voices heard in
the political arena. For too long the voices of ordinary Texans have been
silenced by a system that depends on big money, influence peddling, and elite
control of political institutions. DriveDemocracy wants to revitalize our
democracy by creating new avenues for political involvement. … The grant
from MoveOn.org comes from the remaining proceeds of MoveOn’s powerful
Defending Democracy campaign, which raised $1 million in 2003 to educate
voters about Republican U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay’s unprecedented mid-decade
Congressional redistricting plan for Texas. DeLay’s plan disenfranchised
millions of Texas voters by radically altering Congressional district lines.
MoveOn’s leadership believed the remaining proceeds from the campaign should be
used in Texas in ways that pay ongoing dividends to ordinary citizens. … DriveDemocracy
launched in April, 2004.” (DriveDemocracy.org Website, www.drivedemocracy.org,
Accessed 9/7/04)

MoveOn.org Raising Money For Kerry Campaign.“Some help is coming from two major, if predictable,
groups – the Democratic National Committee and the MoveOn.org political action
committee – which are firing off separate fund-raising letters on Kerry’s
behalf to as many as 4 million donors. … In addition to donations, Eli
Pariser of MoveOn.org’s PAC said his group already had received commitments
from donors to spend some 5 million hours working on Kerry’s behalf.‘The big question is whether Kerry will have
the resources in this key moment to powerfully respond to the Republican
attacks and present his positive vision for our country,’ Pariser wrote in his
fund-raising appeal.‘Together, we
can answer this question.If you’ve
been holding off on contributing to a presidential campaign, now’s the time to
jump in.We have a Democratic nominee,
and he needs our support today.’”(John Mercurio, “Money
Matters As Race Gets Under Way,” CNN.com, 3/4/04)

üMoveOn.org
Pledged To Give $20 Million “Directly To The Kerry Campaign.”“MoveOn PAC announced plans to raise an
unprecedented amount of money to defeat President Bush and elect ‘progressive
candidates.’The group plans to raise
$50 million in the hopes of reducing the Republican advantage of large
contributions from wealthy donors and corporations. … The unprecedented goal of
$50 million is the more than the national Democratic Party raised in the past
year, and is more than the National Rifle Association and Emily’s List raised
in the 2002 election cycle combined.The
$50 million dollars will be split three ways, with $10 million being used
to support the largest GOTV drive in American history.$20 million will be used for advertising in
swing states, and an additional $20 million will be given directly to the
Kerry campaign.”(CBS News’ “Washington
Wrap,” www.cbsnews.com,
4/22/04)

In March 2004, MoveOn.org, The Media Fund And Kerry
Campaign Ran Complementary Ads To Counter Bush Campaign Ad Buy.“Senator John Kerry’s advertising
campaign is so closely complemented by those of two major liberal groups
running commercials against President Bush that Republicans are accusing the
Democrats of trying to evade campaign finance laws.An analysis of advertising data provided by
Republicans, Democrats and an independent group shows a striking synchronicity
between the advertising campaigns of Mr. Kerry and Moveon.org and the Media
Fund, which flatly deny any illegal consultations.They have been advertising in the same 17 swing states, in
most of the same markets while almost uniformly ignoring others.In mid-March, while Mr. Kerry advertised
slightly more in the morning, the groups advertised slightly more at
night.At other times of day, the two
groups and the Kerry campaign together matched Mr. Bush’s advertising nearly
spot for spot, in a couple of cases exceeding it.That level of correlation has delighted Democrats, who
acknowledge that the groups have gone a long way in helping Mr. Kerry to meet
the advertising onslaught of Mr. Bush, whose campaign has raised far more
money.”(Jim Rutenberg, “Democrats’ Ads In Tandem Provoke
G.O.P.,” The New York Times, 3/27/04)

Kerry Campaign In
“Almost Constant Contact With Moveon.Org Staffers, Including Advanced Viewing
And Reviews Of Moveon.Org Television Commercials, Online Ads, And Web Content.”
“On Friday, Kerry campaign spokesman Debra Deshong was telling any reporter who
would listen that there was a big difference between the negative
advertisements being run by George Soros-funded MoveOn.org and Swift Boat
Veterans for Truth: ‘MoveOn.org is an independent organization that existed
well before the Kerry campaign,’ she said, whereas the veterans group ‘is not
an independent group.’ Deshong denied that the campaign had any knowledge about
MoveOn.org’s financing or motives or plans in its almost $20 million attacks
against President Bush. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has spent about $800,000
on its advertising. In fact, according to a Kerry campaign volunteer, staff
members and volunteers of the Kerry campaign in New York, Washington, and Los
Angeles have been in almost constant contact with MoveOn.org staffers,
including advanced viewing and reviews of MoveOn.org television commercials,
online ads, and web content. As well, MoveOn.org staffers provided the Kerry
campaign with opposition research within the past two months, as well as
advance looks at speeches made by MoveOn.org speakers, including former Vice
President Al Gore. ‘We’re always running into those guys,’ says a Kerry
campaign volunteer in Washington, about MoveOn.org staffers. ‘We socialize
with them, we see them at meetings, we can’t avoid it. And of course we talk
about the campaign. In some cities, we get our volunteers from MoveOn. No one
has ever raised an issue about it.’” (“The Way It’s Done,” America Spectator
Website, www.spectator.org,
8/23/04)

Kerry Campaign
Coordinates With MoveOn.org Through “Back-Channel Relationships.” “In some
cases, it isn’t just volunteers that the Kerry campaign is getting from
MoveOn.org. They are hiring them too. In April, the Kerry campaign hired
MoveOn’s special projects and research director Jack [sic] Exley to oversee
Kerry’s campaign’s website. At the time, the Kerry campaign made a point of
saying that Exley was joining the campaign with not a single scrap of paper or
computer disk from his time with MoveOn. But Exley didn’t need to bring much. According
to another Kerry adviser, there were already so many back-channel relationships
between the two organizations, Exley’s presence to foster more was unnecessary.
‘As soon as it was clear Kerry had the nomination, we began coordinating. It’s
all done through the DNC and the AFL-CIO, which is financing many of the other
groups out there running anti-Republican advertising. We will sit on conference
calls, but we won’t take part. We just take notes, then confer with our folks
inside the DNC. That’s the way it’s done.’” (“The Way It’s Done,” America Spectator Website, www.spectator.org,
8/23/04)

üAccount Of MoveOn.org-Sponsored House Party
Posted On Kerry Website. “The East Bay for Kerry/MoveOn House party on
December 7th combined the forces of two grass-roots organizations based in San
Francisco East Bay Area. We had 200 guests eating, drinking, and watching
the MoveOn Documentary ‘Uncovered’ featuring Joseph Wilson and Rand Beers from
the Kerry campaign. When Teresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin
that read in the center: ‘Asses of Evil’ with ‘Bush,’ ‘Cheney,’ ‘Rumsfeld’ and
‘Ashcroft’ surrounding it. She met, greeted and talked to a jam-packed room of
Kerry supporters and others who came for the MoveOn documentary. Many were
curious, others undecided, or belonging to other candidate camps. Teresa
talked about her life as the daughter of a physician in Africa, about life
during a repressive regime, to life inside Washington DC, and a brief intimate
glimpse into her courtship with John. She told a rapt crowd about how they
met and their first date, and that he did not call again for six months,
adding, ‘He was slow on the uptake.’ Just as she was about to add more to
the story, the phone rang. It was the Senator. The synchronicity of this call was
not lost on the crowd. We all laughed. John then spoke about the Medicare
Bill recently signed by the president that effectively forces people into
expensive HMO plans and prevents Medicare from using its formidable consumer
base to drive the bulk purchase of expensive prescription drugs down. He also
spoke about the recent Bush Thanksgiving visit to our military in Iraq,
carrying a platter laden down with a fake turkey, smiling for a photo op.
People were hungry for the food we had prepared, but more so, hungry for John’s
message of hope. … Thanks to Teresa, we kept the party going on, and she helped
us here at East Bay for Kerry, throw the Mother of All House Parties.” (John Kerry For President
Website, http://blog.johnkerry.com,
12/11/03)

DNC General Counsel Joe Sandler Also Represents
MoveOn.org. “‘It’s ridiculous,’ says Joseph Sandler of Sandler, Reiff
& Young, who represents MoveOn.org and Moving America Forward, two of
the 527s targeted by Vogel. ‘We regard this as an effort to misuse the law to
muzzle criticism of the Bush administration and to intimidate the groups and
their donors,’ says Sandler, who also serves as general counsel of the
Democratic National Committee.” (Jonathan Groner, “Power Punch,” Legal Times, 4/26/04)

MoveOn.org Officials Reportedly Talked To “A Variety Of
Party Officials About Organizing And Fund-Raising” For The 2004 Election.
“MoveOn officials have talked to a variety of party officials about organizing
and fund-raising next year.” (David Jackson, “Internet Group Mobilizes Broad Base For Political
Activism,” The Dallas Morning News, 10/28/03)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi And DCCC Chairman
Robert Matsui “Were Among Several House Democrats Who Met With MoveOn In June.”
“A day or so later, Senate Democrats announced that they had invited Boyd to
lunch on Capitol Hill on Sept. 18.Hurricane Isabel forced them to cancel the date, but they intend to
reschedule. … House Democrats also have taken note – particularly since Dean’s
surge in fundraising and MoveOn’s strong efforts in the FCC debate, said Rep.
Robert T. Matsui of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee. Matsui and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California
were among several House Democrats who met with MoveOn in June. What they see
is a potential ally that could help them move votes and frame issues – as well
as a template for the party’s own organizing activities. ‘They can move
immediately, within hours, and have an impact on Capitol Hill with phones or
letters,’ Matsui said.‘And of course,
we’ve seen that they can raise money quickly.’” (John Cochran, “Internet-Based Activist Group Puts
Powerful Spin On Politics,” CQ Weekly, 10/3/03)

After 9/11, MoveOn.org Collected Signatures For Statement
Calling For “Justice, Not Escalating Violence That Would Only Play Into The
Terrorists’ Hands.”(Tony Pugh, “Against Tide,
They Clamor For Peace,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/21/01)

MoveOn.Org Opposed $87 Billion For Troops And
Reconstruction In Iraq And Afghanistan:

MoveOn.org Opposed $87 Billion For Troops And
Reconstruction In Iraq And Afghanistan.“An online political activist group is criticizing President Bush’s $87
billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan in a television ad… The commercial is part of MoveOn.org’s
effort to defeat the supplemental spending bill pending in Congress.” (Will Lester, “Political Notebook,” The Associated Press,
10/15/03)

MoveOn.Org Opposed War In Iraq:

“Revisiting A Jarring Television Commercial From The Cold
War Era, A Grass-Roots Anti-War Group Has Remade The 1964 ‘Daisy’ Ad, Warning
That A War Against Iraq Could Spark Nuclear Armageddon.” (Ian Stewart, “Anti-War
Group Revives The ‘Daisy’ Ad,” The Associated Press, 1/16/03)

“Like
The Original, The 30-Second Ad By The Internet-Based Group Moveon.Org
Depicts A Girl Plucking Petals From A Daisy – Along With A Missile Launch
Countdown And A Nuclear Mushroom Cloud. …’”(Ian
Stewart, “Anti-War Group Revives The ‘Daisy’ Ad,” The Associated Press,
1/16/03)

MoveOn.Org Called For Censuring President:

March 2004: “MoveOn’s New Spot… Claims That Bush Did Not Tell The Truth A Year Ago When Laying
Out The Case For War With Iraq, And It Urges Congress To Censure The
President.”(Liz
Sidoti, “New Anti-Bush Ads Assail President On Economy, Iraq War,” The
Associated Press, 3/17/04)

Moveon.Org Ad Showed Hooded Statue Of Liberty:

“Moveon.Org … Is Responsible For The ‘Fire Cheney’ TV Ad
That Shows The Statue Of Liberty With A Hood Over Its Head.” (Bill Holland, “Getting Out
The Vote,” Billboard, 7/3/04)

MOVEON.ORG ON SOCIAL SECURITY

FactCheck.Org: “Moveon.Org Launched A False TV Ad In The
Districts Of Several House Members, Claiming Through Images And Words That
President Bush Plans To Cut Social Security Benefits Nearly In Half.” (FactCheck.Org, “MoveOn.Org
Social Security Ad,” www.factcheck.org/article303.html,
2/1/05)

FactCheck.Org: “In A Full-Page Newspaper Ad In The New
York Times MoveOn.Org Repeated Its Misleading Claim, Saying ‘Privatization
Means Cuts Of Up To 46% In Guaranteed Benefits.’” (FactCheck.Org, “MoveOn.Org Social Security
Ad,” www.factcheck.org/article303.html,
2/2/05)

“MoveOn.org, A Liberal Group That Was Highly Critical Of
Bush Throughout The 2004 Presidential Campaign, Today Will Begin Airing
Television Ads Warning Three House Members Not To ‘Privatize’ Social Security:
Reps. Allen Boyd Jr. (D-Fla.), Chris Chocola (R-Ind.), And Jim Gerlach
(R-Pa.).”(Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Weisman, “Bush May
Back Curbs On Accounts,” The Washington Post, 2/1/05)

“‘We
Are Committed To This Effort For The Long Haul,’ MoveOn.org Executive
Director Eli Pariser Said In A Statement.‘We Will Make Sure That Members Of Congress Who Consider Supporting
A Plan That Reduces Benefits For Future Retirees Know That Their
Constituents Will Hear From Us - And They Will Hear From Their
Constituents.’”(“Social Security Ad
Aims At 3 House Members,” Roll Call, 2/1/05)

Moveon.Org Fundraising Email:“That’s Why We’re Hoping To
Raise $500,000 Today To Put Our New Ad, Working Retirement, On The Air In
Washington, New York, And The Districts Of Three Critical Representatives
Who Might Vote For Privatization.” (“Fight Bush’s Spin: Help Air New Social
Security Ad Today,” Move.On.org Fundraising Email, Sent 2/1/05)

“An Indiana Television Station That Aired An Ad Attacking
President Bush’s Social Security Reform Tacked On A Message Of Its Own After
Receiving Objections From Republican Leaders.” (Tom Coyne, “TV Station Modifies Social Security Ad
To Clarify Message,” The Associated Press, 2/7/05)

“Jim
Behling, President And General Manager Of WNDU-TV In South Bend, Said The
Station Amended A Commercial From MoveOn.Org In Response To A Letter From
The Republican National Committee That Called The Ad’s Claims ‘Baseless.’”(Tom Coyne, “TV
Station Modifies Social Security Ad To Clarify Message,” The Associated
Press, 2/7/05)

“The Group MoveOn.org, Which Organized
Millions Of Supporters For Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry’s Election Challenge
To Bush Last Year, Entered The Social Security Fight The Week Of Jan. 10 By
Soliciting Signatures For A Petition It Intends To Send To Congress Immediately
Following Bush’s Jan. 20 Inauguration.”(Adriel Bettelheim, “Dependable Bush Supporters Hang
Back on Social Security,” Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 1/14/05)

Moveon.Org Fundraising Email:“You’ve Helped Us Blow Past Our Goal Of 200,000 Signatures On Our
Petition To Stop Social Security Privatization – We’re Now Over 350,000
Signers.”(“Fight Bush’s Spin: Help Air New Social Security Ad Today,”
Move.On.org Fundraising Email, Sent 2/1/05)

During Last MoveOn Ad Contest, Two Ads Comparing
President Bush To Hitler Appeared On MoveOn.org Voter Fund Website.“One ad begins with Adolf Hitler making
speeches, until a picture of President Bush appears.Another also uses Nazi and Bush images, with the tag line: ‘What
were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003.’The videos appeared on the Web site of MoveOn.org’s Voter Fund as
part of a nationwide contest for an anti-Bush television ad on which the
liberal group plans to spend a considerable sum.”(Howard
Kurtz, “Anti-Bush Ad Contest Includes Hitler Images,” The Washington Post,
1/6/04)

Abraham
Foxman Of Anti-Defamation League Called Ads “Vile And Outrageous” And
Group’s Comments Explaining Them “Hardly Comforting.”(Anti-Defamation League,“Hitler Ad Should Never Have Appeared
On MoveOn.org,” Press Release, 1/5/04)

“The Original Idea For Developing The Ads Came Last Year
From [Laura] Dawn … Dawn, Moby And Pariser Designed A Competition For MoveOn
Supporters To Submit Homemade Ads Against Bush … That Effort Drew Enormous
Publicity For MoveOn, But Also Exposed The Group To Intense Criticism When One
Contestant Submitted An Ad Likening Bush To Hitler.” (Ronald Brownstein, “Tapping
Talent, Not Just Names,” Los Angeles Times, 7/4/04)

ACTFORLOVE.ORG DATING SERVICE

In May 2003, Extreme Campaigns Launched An Online Dating
Service For Liberals And Progressives.“ActForLove.org, a cause-oriented personals service that lets
activists participate in online advocacy and find dates at the same time, was
launched today by Extreme Campaigns.Via its partnership with Spring Street Networks, the service is able to
offer new members access to over 1,000,000 personals, as well as cutting-edge
features such as real-time video chat.Rumsfeld.org, geared specifically towards anti-war efforts, was also
launched as a sub-brand of ActForLove.org (http:/www.ActForLove.org).”(Extreme Campaigns, “Extreme Campaigns Launches ActForLove.org,
Rumsfeld.org Activist Dating Service,” Press Release, 5/20/03)

Extreme Campaigns’ President, John Hlinko, Is A Veteran
Of MoveOn.org And DraftWesleyClark.com.“Extreme Campaigns specializes in creative, high-impact campaigns
designed to attract, engage, and motivate supporters for causes and
candidates.The firm is led by
grassroots campaign expert John Hlinko.Hlinko, a long-time Internet activist and even longer-time dater, is a
veteran of MoveOn.org, DraftWesleyClark.com, JustSayBlow.com, and a range
of other cause-oriented efforts.Throughout his career, he has been particularly active on the guerrilla
marketing front, and has appeared in this context on CNN and Fox and been
covered by Wired, Salon.com, and NPR, In 1998, he helped lead MoveOn.org,
an anti-impeachment petition that generated over half a million signatures and
several million dollars in donations.He also founded and led JustSayBlow.com, a semi-comedic effort against a
particularly stupid Drug-War policy.And, he once showed up in Senator Mitch McConnell’s office to lobby for
campaign finance reform dressed as a pile of laundry.”(Extreme Campaigns, “Extreme Campaigns Launches ActForLove.org,
Rumsfeld.org Activist Dating Service,” Press Release, 5/20/03)

Hlinko On ActForLove.org Launch.“‘Activism is sexy, activists are sexy,
and it’s high time that all humans were offered a way to “take action” while
“getting action,”‘ said John Hlinko, president of Extreme Campaigns and
founder of ActForLove.org.”(Extreme Campaigns, “Extreme
Campaigns Launches ActForLove.org, Rumsfeld.org Activist Dating Service,” Press
Release, 5/20/03)